Daily Practice · A Level
October 1983 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1983In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 2nd October 1983The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 3rd October 1983What is 'hubris'?
- 4th October 1983What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 5th October 1983What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 6th October 1983Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 7th October 1983The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 8th October 1983Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 9th October 1983What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 10th October 1983What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 11th October 1983Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 12th October 1983Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 13th October 1983Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 14th October 1983Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 15th October 1983Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 16th October 1983Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 17th October 1983What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 18th October 1983Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 19th October 1983A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 20th October 1983Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 21st October 1983A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 22nd October 1983What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 23rd October 1983Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 24th October 1983A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 25th October 1983What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 26th October 1983Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 27th October 1983Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 28th October 1983What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 29th October 1983Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 30th October 1983Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 31st October 1983Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?